Free plugins from soundtoys

Cowboyyeehaa1

Seem to be well rated - I've never used them. Giving 6 away - one every two days for the next 12 days.

https://www.soundtoys.com/12-days-of-soundtoys/

mrkb

As I already own them all are they refunding existing owners

monquixote

Soundtoys stuff is absolutely world class. 

I have the whole set and they are some of the most commonly used effects by professional producers. 

Jfingers

Thanks for posting this, just downloaded the second one as unfortunately I saw the thread too late and missed the first. What was it, out of curiosity?

Caffeine_Vampire

Jfingers said:

Thanks for posting this, just downloaded the second one as unfortunately I saw the thread too late and missed the first. What was it, out of curiosity?

Little Primaltap I believe.

icu81b4

Yea, what about us that bought all this stuff ages ago! 

It’s top notch stuff though.

MrTee

Incidentally owning and registering these free versions drop the price if you want to upgrade. After two free downloads it brings the price of upgrading to the full suite to $269 from $299 (currently on sale). 

Hoping it goes down further after the remaining 4!

Shark_Eyes

Downloaded today's but realised it needed an iLok account, so that's me out, don't really need any more plug ins anyway!

MrTee

@Shark_Eyes i dont have an ilok account and they downloaded fine, seem to authorise via a passcode direct to the website

Caffeine_Vampire

What's the issue with ilok?

digitalkettle

Caffeine_Vampire said:

What's the issue with ilok?

iDon'tKnow! That's what my installation uses.

monquixote

I think ilok has a terrible reputation from history, but I've never had a problem with it over what is used by Arturia or Roland etc. 

digitalkettle

monquixote said:

I think ilok has a terrible reputation from history, but I've never had a problem with it over what is used by Arturia or Roland etc. 

I don't want to curse it but it's been invisibly flawless for me.

I have had a problem with Soundtoys though...got the full suite...everything as up to date as it can be on MacOS Ventura. Occasionally, I'll drop a plugin on a track in Studio One and it'll kill the DAW. Doesn't happen every time...usually only if I've forgotten to save the project first

Lodious

+1. No problems with ilok at all. Much better than having hardware dongles IME.

AntonHunter

digitalkettle said:

monquixote said:

I think ilok has a terrible reputation from history, but I've never had a problem with it over what is used by Arturia or Roland etc. 

I don't want to curse it but it's been invisibly flawless for me.

I have had a problem with Soundtoys though...got the full suite...everything as up to date as it can be on MacOS Ventura. Occasionally, I'll drop a plugin on a track in Studio One and it'll kill the DAW. Doesn't happen every time...usually only if I've forgotten to save the project first

Interesting... I loaded up Little Primal Tap to test it... and Reaper has crashed a couple of times since then. Hmmmm.

monquixote

This is why I use Bitwig. Plugins are sandboxed so they can't crash the DAW.

I've never had a problem with anything sound toys though 

Shark_Eyes

@MrTee didn't get that option, just create an iLok account or lose the activation (not great experience to be honest).

I have seen a friend's iLok account go odd and so I've sworn to never use them, plus I think they're anti consumer as a business model.

I have a personal problem with having to have two accounts to operate something, it's another failure point, and a burden on the user to understand and operate.

To be fair I'm a user experience designer in my regular job so I have no patience for this sort of thing.

thecolourbox

Little Radiator today

Jfingers

I've downloaded and installed EchoBoy Jr and Little Radiator to use within Reaper. I'm new to Reaper and plugins. What I did was insert a blank track in Reaper and click FX then find EchoBoy in the list, it opened and I had a tinker with adjusting parameters etc (turning knobs...) to make sure I could operate it.

If I try to do that now I get an error message saying validation not authorised or similar and EchBoy won't open. Little Radiator doesn't even appear in the list or its subsections. If I log in to Soundtoys both show as active.

I just downloaded a fairly random free vst, IVG12 saturation and followed the same procedure and it opens and appears to operate with no problems. Estoy confuso!

monquixote

thecolourbox said:

Little Radiator today

It's a really nice preamp warmer for just about anything 

Jfingers

I'd appreciate some advice at some point about my issue above. Thanks to anyone that's read it and has some idea how to help. After xmas is fine.